There are always hundreds of more important stories in the world than those generated by the BBC Current Affairs department can deliver, yet every week our news programmes become adverts. And every other month...

Within 15 years, Handel had started three commercial opera companies to supply the English nobility with Italian opera. Musicologist Winton Dean writes that his operas show that “Handel was not only a great composer;...

“Because nobody themselves actually sees the picture the same way. There are big picture thinkers, there are detailed thinkers. We need them all. “This would be fine if all users were exactly alike, which,...

He said his country deplored the fact that the international community had not yet been able to hold a conference on ridding the Middle East of mass destruction weapons, as recommended in the Outcome...